Confluence vs. JSPWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki

General Features Confluence JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki
Version
5.2
2.11.0
2.5.9
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-04-05 (1 day ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-04-05 (1 day ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Apache Software Foundation
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Apache License 2.0
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
all
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features Confluence JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Confluence JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Optional
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support Confluence JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Confluence JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Confluence JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Usability Confluence JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics Confluence JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Output Confluence JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Confluence JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*bold*
__bold__
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
_italics_
''italics''
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
+underline+
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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